Ceremony
FEAR=DESTRUCTION
"They fear
They fear the world.
They destroy what they fear.
They fear themselves."
"They will kill the things they fear
all the animals
the people will starve."
"They will fear what they find
They will fear the people
They kill what they fear" (Silko 136).
Leslie Marmon Silko uses these three short passages taken from an ancient Indian story included in the novel Ceremony to express and convey the idea that the white man's fear was the primary factor contributing to their negative actions toward the Indian people. The ancient Indian story that the passages are pulled from also explains how Indian witchery led to the invention of the white people and all the evil inside of them, causing them to destroy the world and everything else that inhabits it.
When the wind blew the white people across the ocean, thousands of them in giant boats (Silko 136), they were faced with the unfamiliar culture of the......
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